Re: Exim4 not routing local mail, even after exim4-config (was New 64bit installation: Exim4 Send to Root)
On Mon 28 Jul 2014 at 10:34:04 +0300, David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 27 July 2014 23:45:44 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
> wrote:
> > > > /etc/mailname
> > >
> > > localhost.localdomain
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is the first answer on the reconfig, probably should not be this?
> >
> > This is not ok. Exim uses what is in /etc/mailname to qualify an address
> > without a domain name. For example, if the mail is sent to david then
> > exim cannot let it go out like that so will add localhost.localdomain
> > and send it david@localhost.localdomain. smtp.012.net.il will be unable
> > to deliver it because localhost.localdomain in not in the DNS. The mail
> > should be returned to you.
>
> Thought so. Why was that even offered? I had replaced it previously with the
> proper domain so did so again.
It was offered because your system was set up tell exim what the
mailname was when it asked.
> Now, if I simply send to a user, the mail will be delivered.
> If I simply send to "root," it gets correctly aliased over to
> "system_notifications," but then gets returned!
>
> So original problem remains !?!
'exim -bt <address>' might help.
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